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Courtney Weaver / Financial Times:
Trump deflects questions about his promised $6M donation to veterans groups by berating media at press conference, calling one reporter a “sleaze” to his face — In the world of Donald Trump, it was campaigning 101. — Faced with scrutiny over whether he had delivered …
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John M. Donnelly / National Press Club:
National Press Club president alarmed by Trump's attitude toward First Amendment, says any US candidate attacking press is “campaigning in wrong country” — The National Press Club president expressed alarm on Tuesday about Donald Trump's dangerous attitude toward the First Amendment.
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Dieter Bohn / The Verge:
Speaking at Code Conference, Jeff Bezos says public figures like Thiel need to learn to deal with media criticism — Speaking today at the Code Conference, Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos spoke out against Peter Thiel's crusade against Gawker Media. Bezos who was perhaps speaking more as the owner …
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Stephen Marche / New York Times:
Esquire columnist Stephen Marche, frequent Gawker target, defends the company, says it provides an essential function to democracy, holds tech titans to account — I HAVE been attacked pretty much my entire career by Gawker. I made its list of “least important writers” twice …
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Sarah Ellison / Vanity Fair:
Inside The New York Times' power struggles, speculation about who will succeed Dean Banquet as executive editor, and forthcoming cuts — It's been two years since Dean Baquet vaulted over Jill Abramson to claim the top editorial job, but the prospect of deeper change is still stirring at the 164-year-old Times.
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Todd Spangler / Variety:
Gawker.com's traffic drops 37% in April from previous month to 7.6M, the lowest its been in at least 3 years, according to comScore — Caveat emptor, Gawker gawkers: Any company considering buying the controversial digital publisher should know that its namesake site has hit some serious traffic lows.
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Georg Szalai / Hollywood Reporter:
Facebook, Google, Twitter promise to review most requests to remove hate speech within 24 hours, as European Commission unveils guidelines to halt its spread — Together with the European Commission, they unveil a new code of conduct designed to avoid the “spread of illegal hate speech.”
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Mark Scott / New York Times:
Study: 1 in 5 smartphone users globally are blocking ads, a 90% increase in 2015, but only 2.2% in US as of March — Many of the world's largest Internet companies, like Google and Facebook, rely heavily on advertising to finance their online empires. — But that business model …
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Shan Wang / Nieman Lab:
Profile of Discourse Media, a bootstrapped Canadian firm producing journalism through collaborations with other media and academic researchers — Discourse Media does a bit of everything. — The two-and-a-half year old Vancouver-based organization, for instance, collaborates …
Ken Doctor / Politico:
S. Mitra Kalita, LA Times managing editor for digital strategy, joins CNN as VP of programming — Turmoil on one side, a $20 M. investment on the other — The Los Angeles Times has just lost an important digital leader, as S. Mitra Kalita — just named as one of the ten most poachable players in media …
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Ricardo Bilton / Nieman Lab:
The Athletic, Chicago's $10/mth subscription sports site, hopes exclusive content and local fans will help it become a sustainable business — If you're trying to start a local subscription-based sports site, it helps if your local teams are actually playing well.
Jasper Jackson / Guardian:
New York Times' Paris staff launch bid to reduce local job losses by asking bosses to cut staff in London and Hong Kong offices — Paper announced in April it was to relocate or axe about 60 roles in shift of international operations to London — New York Times staff in Paris have launched …
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